Some Hoylake pics

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the council offices
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Central Hall with a few letters missing on it`s sign
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Date stone on top of Central Hall
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St Luke`s Methodist church,with a modern attachment in the middle
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Idon`t know if this is the old fire station as over the door it says fire e House
with the extra E looking a new addition
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Royal Mail building
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Flock of seagulls sculpture in front of the old Quadrant buiding
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Old drinking fountain and modern lifeboat station
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Queen Victoria drinking fountain with the old model boat pond now sadly neglected

Nice pics there but that's not a flock of seagulls, it's a knot of Knots.

Could have been fire engine house before they took out the rest to fit the window.

Very fine, Joe.

In terms of the fire house with the seeming extra "E" is it possible that the window was put in later and it originally read "Fire Engine House"?

Chris

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Originally Posted by chrismarsden

Could have been fire engine house before they took out the rest to fit the window.

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Great minds think alike, Chris. :PDT11

Chris

Knot of Knots

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Nice pics there but that's not a flock of seagulls, it's a knot of Knots.

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I did Knot know that,thanks Chris.

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Originally Posted by chrismarsden

Could have been fire engine house before they took out the rest to fit the window.

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Who ever altered that should be ashamed of themselves

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Originally Posted by gregs dad

Who ever altered that should be ashamed of themselves

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Too true and to think that it ended up in a skip...arghh

When the Sculpture of the Knots was unveiled there was outcry by the locals, telephone calls to Roger, letters to the Globe etc.
I was working over there at the time and really liked it from day one.
As it ages it seems to look better and I think it has grown on the locals now.

Nice photos there! What date do you reckon that is in the brickwork.. 1901?

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Nice photos there! What date do you reckon that is in the brickwork.. 1901?

Shameless plug: Visit my Hoylake site for new/old photos of Hoylake.

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Fair enough.

Good site, good luck with it.

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Originally Posted by tallbloke

Nice photos there! What date do you reckon that is in the brickwork.. 1901?

Shameless plug: Visit my Hoylake site for new/old photos of Hoylake.

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Yes it's 1901. Although not immediately obvious given the monogram-like nature of the way the date is presented, more as a design than to convey the information that it is telling us a date. Here in Baltimore there is a fine 1888 datestone that is presented in a similar way.

Thanks for the link, tallbloke, I will check it out.

Chris

Has anyone got any old photos of the Open Air swimming baths that used to be in Hoylake. I remember them well. Freezing cold and salt water.......yuk!

http://www.francisfrith.com/hoylake/photos/ :)

I've got this one ...evidently taken on a busy day !

Hoylake Pool

It's the site of the new lifeboat station now of course.